An Edinburgh townhouse garden, used latterly as an office car park, could be turned into a stunning new mews home.
The plans, submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council for the property on Northumberland Street, would see a family home and shared garden erected for the backcourt area, following the previous conversion of the A-listed New Town property into a single dwelling.
Alan Couper Consulting are behind the plans for a two-storey house replicating and extending an adjacent historic mews in association with D&H Farmer Architects, which would see a stone garden wall retained and incorporated within the mews gable.
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In a planning statement, the applicant wrote: "The proposed mews has two bedrooms with shower rooms on the first floor and an open plan living/dining area on the ground floor with direct access into the new garden via French doors. Glazed folding sliding doors provide access to the new garden.
"As the proposed mews house is quite compact and space for storage is at a premium, some additional storage space for bulky items, bicycles, surfboards, luggage, garden tools and equipment, is being provided in a basement under the house and part under the new garden with access directly from the garden by stairs. The stairs will be partially covered by a glass walkway to let light into the stairwell."
The building will be given a modern finish with coursed sandstone with sandstone quoins and a slate roof with a zinc ridge.
A paved stone shared garden will include stainless steel raised planting beds, accessible from Northumberland Street North West Lane via an integrated garage.
An artist's impression of the modern townhouse has been created by architects, showing the rear of the property with a glassed garage door and impressive courtyard with additional double storage garages and several planters.
